• kwomp2@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Even though this is true for like 90% of my thinking (that I can see when I try), so far I’m concinced this ist because I am a predominantly language-and-normal-grammar-rules thinker.

    There are people that mostly think via associations of words that don’t have to be formulated/ cast into grammar.

    And then there supposedly people mainly thinking in pictures or smth, without words.

    Anyways for some people rubber duck mode reoresents a change in thinking method, I think

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      4 months ago

      Yes, saying thinks out loud requires a different change in thinking because you are verbalizing the thoughts in addition to approaching it as an explanation instead of just an understanding. I know how a phone works, but describing how it works is a different thing from knowing. The duck is just a stand in for someone else to get the mindset of explaining